“…Group members have a strong tendency to side when confronted with conflict in their group (Yang, Van de Vliert, & Shi, 2005, 2007, 2009Yang, Van de Vliert, Shi, & Huang, 2008). Siding is one of the main characteristics of conflict escalation (Jehn et al, 2013;Lee, Gelfand, & Kashima, 2014). Also, for third parties such as managers and professional mediators, siding is considered a risk.…”